Arthur Kushka CV

contact.

Seattle, Washington
arhelmus@gmail.com
https://archdev.me
bio.

Software engineer at Meta Reality Labs, working on developer platforms, core device experiences and agentic AI for AR/VR and wearable devices. Led framework development for Meta Orion and the app SDK for AR glasses; currently working on agentic AI for wearables.
current role.
Meta Reality Labs | Software Engineer London, United Kingdom; Seattle, Washington
December 2018 - present
Founding Engineer, Agentic AI Pathfinding for Wearables
- One of the three most senior engineers in the Wearables Core Experiences org, staffed on a leadership-backed effort to test an AI-native way of building products, with full autonomy over technology, dependencies, and build-vs-partner decisions.
- Architected and built the end-to-end agentic AI experience for Meta wearables, defining the split between glasses, phone companion app, and cloud to minimize latency and keep interactions stable under mobile OS restrictions on the companion app.
- Informed the wearables OS roadmap; the work became the basis of the wearables experience built on top of Meta's Muse personal AI agent.
Uber Tech Lead, AR Glasses App SDK
- Owned the SDK for an unreleased AR glasses device: set goals and targets for ~30 engineers across multiple teams, most outside my reporting line.
- Co-authored the SDK vision with PM leadership, owned the multi-year roadmap, and worked with EMs to reshape how teams work together to execute it.
- Unified separate team deliverables into one SDK: device simulators and emulators, provisioning, 2D/3D developer frameworks, IDE and profiler tooling, dev/test infrastructure, and onboarding.
- Steered how the runtime team integrated 2D/3D rendering and the input stack, through design reviews and hands-on code contributions, to fit device CPU and memory budgets and maximize use of the custom accelerators.
- Grew two senior engineers to Staff, replacing myself on the frameworks team.
Tech Lead, Meta Orion App Framework
- Originated the React-based app framework that every non-game Orion app is built on; built the prototype, recruited the team, and led it for two years through the device's internal release.
- Moved Orion app development over a year earlier by using Meta Quest Pro as a stand-in for AR hardware, and aligned the org on supporting it until prototypes were available.
Engineer, Meta Quest App Framework
- Built the developer environment used by ~100 internal engineers to ship every Quest system app and the Horizon Worlds UIs: CLI, IDE workflow, build integration, hot reload, debugging, profiling, and headset-to-laptop streaming.
- Upstreamed fixes and features to React Native, Hermes, Metro, Watchman, VS Code, and IGL.
- Contributed developer experience improvements to the internal microkernel OS.
education.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
past experiences.

AutoScout24 | Senior Software Engineer Munich, Germany | January 2017 - November 2018
Worked on AWS cloud-hosted high-load distributed systems. Organised internal Scala developer community and authored various internal core libraries and tools. Created personalized car recommendation feed driven by machine learning algorithms.
WIX.com | Senior Backend Developer Dnipro, Ukraine | October 2015 - November 2016
Worked on high-load distributed Scala backend for e-commerce as a service platform. Maintained CQRS event-sourcing data processing infrastructure. Integrated Elasticsearch as part of the data processing infrastructure and implemented search API for loosely structured data.
Freelance | Fullstack Developer Dnipro, Ukraine | October 2012 - August 2015
Helped customers to bootstrap MVPs, deliver new features to existing products, and integrate with third-party services. Worked with projects using Scala, Groovy, PHP, NodeJS, AngularJS, Backbone, MySQL, and MongoDB. Managed service deployments with Docker and continuous integration pipelines.

Arthur Kushka.

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